Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-04-21
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

The Midland Savings Bank has opened
for business.
A canning factory will be established
at Marlette shortly.
Traverse City has a Harmonic Society
now, with fifty members.
Work on the new wooden mill at Clin-
ton is progressing rapidly.
The erection of the new Catholic
Church at Bronson has commenced.
East Saginaw cast majority of 1905
votes in favor of issuing $4,000 sewer
bonds.
Quay & Sons mill at Cheboygan is
now cutting over forty thousand shingles
per day.
An Adrian man has q collection of
3,7OO varieties Of Autographs of plays and
players.
Kalamazoo 90. m.,nen of the Catholic
belief have organized a club, with forty
members.
Rev. NJ. A. Wilcox, d. D., Of Utica,
N. Y, has accepted the Presidency of
Kalamazoo College.
The building for the First National
Bank at Marquette will cost about soven-
teen thousand dollars.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
western part of Branch County. several
farmers having lost their entire stock.
Nearly three million young grayling
and trout were recently deposited in
Saginaw Bay by the State Fish <1Rnsa.
mission.
Mrs. G. B. As..sy,s6 a Asirlss. was
suddenly, .stuckep VilN npopis1y early on
Friday <mornine d lAst week, and died
lille afisf room.
Smith Wood has served the people of
Bronson in the capacity of justice twenty
eight years. and he has Just been elected
for another term.
Miss Caroline Geddes, of Adrian, died
Friday morning of last week, at the resi-
dence of her brother, Probate Judge
Norman Geddes, of that city.
Charles H. Palmer, ex-regent Of the
Michigan State University, died at Pontiac.
He had just recovered judgment for $780,
600 against his late partners in mining
interests.
M. J. Dunn, of Detroit, beat Burt
Harrington, of Grand Rapids, in a
horseshoing match for 500 side. Dunn
turned 100 horseshoes in l hour and 33i
minutes.
An unknown man jumped from the
Genesee avenue bridge at East Saginaw
into the river. A newsboy who saw him
gave the alarm Immediately, but the body
has not yet been recovered.
-Gresert Stuart, brother of exp Postmas-
ter Stuart, of Schoolcraft, lately deceased,
was found dead in bed early Thursday
morning at his farm residence. He was 35
years old and prominent stock raiser.
The Lansing Journal says the city
water-w works are now pumping from $780,
600 to 400, 900 gallons daily. If the works
are really pumping out $3.50, 900 daily in
addition to 100000 gallons of water they
ought to be paying expensas pretty we'll.
Miss Burbank, of Cooper Township,
Kalamazoo County, has begun suit against
the Lake Shore Railroad, claiming $4,000
damages for injuries received in disem-
barking from train last September. Miss
Burbank asserts that the accident resulted
from the negligence of the railroad COM
pany's employees.
Property owners in Detroit we're aston
ished to learn, the other day (says dis
patch from that city, that the Board Of
Assessors had raised real-estate values in
the northern parts of all the wards from 80
10 200 per cent. They hocked to the As
SCISSORS Office to see about it, and were in
formed that the increase was made because
in the Boards opinion the assessed valua-
ton has heretofore been much too low.
The sensation of the day, however, was
the knowledge of the discovery by the As
SCISSORS of nearly $4,000, 900 worth of cash
and other personal property belonging TO
estates which have heretofore escaped all
taxation. AmorS nst. items is
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